Durbin Warns: Abusing The Memo Results In A Political Clash Between Both Parties

Liberty Front press

February 7, 2018

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.

Sen. Dick Durbin claimed that Republicans should not use the memo to block special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. He added that if they do that, “constitutional crisis” may be on the way.

“To say that that’s the end of the investigation, that this is all that Donald Trump needs to fire (Deputy Attorney General Rod) Rosenstein or to fire (special counsel Robert) Mueller, I’ll just tell you, this could precipitate a constitutional crisis,” Sen. Dick Durbin said on Sunday.

“If House Republicans believe that they’ve set the stage for this President to end this investigation, they are basically saying that in America, one man is above the law, and that’s not a fact,” Durbin explained.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff claimed that Donald Trump is politically using this memo to end the investigation. “The norms and institutions protecting the Department of Justice from political interference in the years since have been tested, but never before as they are under President Donald Trump,” Schiff said. “What we have witnessed during the first year of the Trump Administration is a determined effort to demolish the separation between politics and the fair administration of justice — an attempt to turn the DOJ’s investigative powers into the personal political tool of the President.”

Sen. Dick Durbin also stated that firing Mueller or Rosenstein will spark a battle between us which we don’t need in America.

“We understand what the Constitution says we must do, and that is hold everyone in the United States, including the President of the United States, accountable if they’ve violated the law,” Durbin said.